Released in 2022, this short film by Rebeca Spiegel comes in a under 10-minutes and is a great piece of short film making. It does, however, have a dark theme around sexual assault that some might find triggering.
It starts with a spooky looking house and a whole lot of knocking. Eventually the owner, Chrysanthemum (Carlos Diehz), opens the door to find Valerie (Genevieve Guimond) there. He doesn’t want saving, assuming her reason for being there, but she gets her foot in the door and produces the flyer for a vampire support group.
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| Chrysanthemum and Valerie |
They talk for a while. He explains that he was turned in 1850. She tells a tale about being in bed and something attacking her, the sequence for her flashback in black and white. He notes that she doesn’t have fangs, she suggests they might be growing in. He does some arts and crafts, and she used to film stop-motion with her sister, and we get a 'becoming friends over a shared hobby' montage (including their own little film). However, when he orders in dinner the truth starts to emerge.
As I said, this is a neat little trope playing with the useful simile that is the vampire, here representing the self-Othering of the victim. For a student effort it is well shot, well acted and on point with its screenplay. The imdb page is here.
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